Mumbai Embassy Giving my fiancee the runaround...

[cchhat01 14]

Okay.

Deep breath.

Now, here's the deal. After reading several posts here and also following some genuine advice, my fiancee and I decided that she would manually hand over the Packet 3 to the embassy. So she woke up in the morning and went to the embassy. They refused to accept any form of documentation at all and wanted the Appointment letter incase something needed to be submitted. WHAT??? She went there to submit the Packet 3, which would result in a Packet 4 (including the interview/appointment letter). Then she attempted to submit Packet 3 at the VFS. They were a bit more courteous in letting her know that neither the embassy or VFS is going to take packet 3 hard copy. Now this really threw me off.

So all in all, she woke up at 5:20 in the morning to go to the US Embassy and VFS to come back without doing what she wanted to do in the first place. Really disappointing.

Firstly, when Packet 3 is issued, it is almost never mailed out or never makes it to the beneficiary. This is something really wrong in the process.

When my fiancee returned home, she went online and emailed the DS156, DS230 Part I and DS2001, Checklist, Applicant Statement to the Embassy. We got an email response saying "Action Taken." Hopefully this is it.

Now we pray to god that they send out the Packet 4 Hardcopy via mail.

Can anyone who has recently dealt with the Mumbai US Embassy care to discuss their process of packet 3/packet 4.

Please share your experiences.

Thank you,

Chigs

[Harsh_77 718]

You never submit packet directly to embassy.

You only go to embassy for the interview.

Your time line shows you are done with NVC that would mean you should have an interview scheduled.

[cchhat01 14]

Harsh_77,

You apparently haven't come across this thread.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/222888-mumbai-packet-3-for-k-1-visa-experience/

This completely threw me off. Maybe the process is changed now as it has been two years since this was posted.

But yes, now we wait for Packet 4.

Thanks,

Chigs

[flyingm14 0]

You can email them asking them to send you a copy of the appointment letter and they will do that. Hope this helps.

M.